Detailed Walkthrough

Book Burning

At your Alliance Rally Point in the Arboretum, you will find an Altmer archivist named Loncano. He will plead with you to recover invaluable Imperial documents before they can be burned by the Daedra. The few surviving legionnaires refuse to help him gather such "scraps of paper", but Loncano insists that endless war will break out if ancient records of genealogy and land ownership are allowed to be lost. Agree to help, and he will explain what you need to do.

The first step to this quest involves killing five daedroth or flame atronachs. The atronachs have less health, but are usually accompanied by other mobs and are located out in the open. The daedroth enemies, on the other hand, are isolated, and may prove a better choice if enemy players are about (providing you have the DPS to take them down).

Document Recovery

After killing five of the arsonist enemies, you will be tasked with recovering some documents. They are quest items that only drop from Dremora enemies in the center of the district. Dremora found outside the quest radius will not drop anything, nor will the patrolling Xivkyn.

Once you've collected eight documents, return to your Alliance base (either through the sewers or through respawning/teleporting) and locate Loncano near Phrastus and Lady Cinnabar. He will reward you with leveled gold and a Light Tel Var Satchel, and will offer to let you collect more documents tomorrow.

Quest Stages

Historical Accuracy

Finishes Quest

Journal Entry

Notes

Any text displayed in angle brackets (e.g., <Alias=LocationHold>) is dynamically set by the Radiant Quest system, and will be filled in with the appropriate word(s) when seen in game.

Not all Journal Entries may appear in your journal; which entries appear and which entries do not depends on the manner in which the quest is done.

Stages are not always in order of progress. This is usually the case with quests that have multiple possible outcomes or quests where certain tasks may be done in any order. Some stages may therefore repeat objectives seen in other stages.

If an entry is marked as "Finishes Quest" it means the quest disappears from the Active Quest list, but you may still receive new entries for that quest.